Consciousness-Raising & Pro-Woman Line Papers, 1968-72

New York City. Includes the first Redstockings literature list, as it appeared in the FBI's files; 1969 seed papers on consciousness-raising; the Redstockings Manifesto (1969), Pat Mainardi's The Politics of Housework (1969), and many pro-woman line classics, including those of founding Redstocking Ellen Willis (1969).

Redstockings meet for a "consciousness-raising session. "Women aren't in a position to make demands now," one says. "We have to build a movement first," --Photo and text from Life, 12/12/69 (c) 1969 by Time, Inc (Photo: Mary Ellen Mark)

HOW TO START A GROUPBy Judith Brown, Gainesville (Florida) Women's Liberation. Written in 1969, published for the first time in 1989. Developed, with much other radical pro-woman line consciousness-raising theory, out of a close collaboration and correspondence among Brown, Kathie Sarachild, Carol Hanisch, and Carol Giardina. Exemplifies down-to-earth, pro-woman organizing spirit and principles. Fresh and useful. 8 1/2 X 11 pamphlet, 13 pages.

THE RADICAL THERAPIST, SPECIAL ISSUE: WOMENAugust 1970, Boston. Edited by Judith Brown, co-founder of Gainesville (Florida) Women's Liberation. Includes her editorial explaining the radical, materialist root of the many pro-woman line papers presented in the issue. A packet of selections. Photocopies of original tabloid 8 1/2 X 11, 20 pgs.

MARXISM WITHOUT MALE SUPREMACYBy Carol Giardina, 1970. Master's thesis in Philosophy of a co-founder of Gainesville (Florida) Women's Liberation. Combines her studies in dialectical materialism with her experience as a woman and as an organizer in the Women's Liberation Movement. With a critique by Catherine Henry of the Red Women's Detachment, New York City. 8 1/2 X 11 pamphlet, 89 pages.